Stan Narten “World Eater”

Kravets/Wehby Gallery

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The Kravets Wehby Gallerypresents World Eater, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Stan Narten.

Stan Narten’s vibrant paintings draw on distinct visual idiom, with a contemporary shift in subject matter. His paintings create an epic visual manifestation of chaos and decay, highly influenced by classical still life and portraiture. In these new works, imagery is derived from sci‐fi, fantasy, and heavy metal illustration to create hyper-real abstract compositions.

Narten ‘digests’ the images, breaking down the reference material and pouring it back onto the canvas. Forms are carried through with intertwined dissonance and pattern, intensified color, and heightened vibrancy. The paintings embrace destruction and creation simultaneously, embodying the push-pull relationship between cosmos and chaos. Their final form suggests that the appearance of order and disorder are merely illusions imposed on reality.